This is probably the closest anyone has come to playing Command and Conquer "Red Alert" in a highly volatile environment, containing the real Soviet Tesla Coil. You too can find out how to reconstruct the set of the popular game and bring it to...

The design for this Tesla Coil is based on the larger DIY Tesla Coil project but with the aim of getting a much smaller and portable device. A Power Pulse Modulator circuit is used to drive two small high voltage ignition coils wired together in...

To create this effect, we'll use an igition coil. What's an ignition coil Well a four stroke engine goes SUCK, SQUEEZE, BANG, BLOW. Literally. The BANG bit utilizes an ignition coil to produce a spark across the spark plug, initiating the power...

Combine a high voltage electrode and a motor and you can create an electric force field around your laptop. Note that all these photos are real, no photoshop. The pictures are all single shots and effects are produced with long exposure.
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A member sent in his latest Tesla coil experiment. He calls it the "Eye of Sauron" effect. It was created by adding a rotating breakout to an already powerful Tesla coil. It isn't quite the same as the old evil eye of Tolkien's dreams, the picture...